Exam question 1 · Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards th…

Which member of the sultan's family undertook the task of guarding the date tree?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: member, task · What happens: undertake, guard · To what, where: task, date tree

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1794 «Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards the date tree and catches the bird» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 member	det
2	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 undertook	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 family	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sultan	det
5	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 family	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 sultan	case
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 member	nmod
8	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 task	det
10	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 undertook	obj
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 guarding	mark
12	guarding	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 task	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
14	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	compound
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 guarding	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 undertook	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undertake	past	which member of the sultan's family	the task					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality
2	guard	gerund	the task not said here	the date tree					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Beneficiary

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

The youngest son, the one called Sit-in-the-Kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 son	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 son	appos
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 one	acl
8	Sit	Sit	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Kitchen	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 Kitchen	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 in	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Kitchen	det
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 the	punct
14	Kitchen	Kitchen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Sit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		the one not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The youngest son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 son	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The sultan's wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sultan	det
2	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sultan	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The boy who had been sitting by the kitchen fire all along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sitting	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 boy	acl:relcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 fire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fire	compound
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 along	advmod
12	along	along	ADV	_	6 sitting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · perfect · progressive	the boy					by the kitchen fire; along property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location

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